Education Schedule

Listed below are the education sessions offered at the Pumper & Cleaner Expo. Click on the title of the course for additional details.

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Wednesday Educational Seminars

Topic: CBSA

Course Description: This session will focus on minimizing the risk of injury, death and property damage associated with the existence of gas distribution lines in sanitary sewers. Risk reduction can be achieved through the use of relatively new techniques and methods for both new construction and existing legacy installations. Procedures for instructing drain cleaners to reduce their risk from gas line cross bores of sewers are available. New construction using advanced techniques and procedures to both provide better planning and post verification are being implemented. Guidelines for Identification of Legacy Cross Bores is available in draft.

Speaker(s):

Mark Bruce

Mark Bruce is president of Can Clay Corp. and president of Cross Bore Safety Association. He has a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology and is past chairman of the North American Society for Trenchless Technology. Bruce also is past president of the Midwest Society for Trenchless Technology, past chairman of the National Clay Pipe Institute. He has been involved with microtunneling projects on five continents while observing the installation of his company

Topic: General Business Track

Course Description: Anyone can be great in sales, if they understand the nature of the sales process. In this session, you will learn the fine art of creating and maintaining rich, meaningful, quality relationships with your customers and prospects.

Speaker(s):

Scott Hunter

Scott Hunter has been transforming organizations for two decades, through keynote speeches, workshops, retreats and management team coaching. Since 1985 he has helped hundreds of businesses, delivered over 1,000 speeches and worked with more than 100,000 individuals as a business coach and speaker.

Course Description: This continuation session will discuss how language creates your experience and how to use language to manage your relationships and your results.

Speaker(s):

Scott Hunter

Course Description: Why can’t we just get along at work? Because the “game” isn’t set up for that. In this session, you will learn why the “honeymoon” is so wonderful, why it ends and what to do about it so you can have truly great relationships with the people you work with, supervise or manage.

Credits Offered For: Indiana (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Scott Hunter

Course Description: In this program you will learn what it takes, year in and year out, no matter what is happening in your business world, to be outrageously successful. You will discover that success has very little to do with what you do, what you know and how hard you work. Truly successful people understand certain principles and use them to outperform the competition.

Speaker(s):

Scott Hunter

Topic: LRN

Course Description: Being successful in business requires leadership that is focused on providing value to customers and the marketplace. In this session participants will learn how to assess their value to customers, determine value propositions to specific types of customers, create a plan to communicate and deliver that value, and get their team engaged in the delivery of customer value.

Speaker(s):

Kelly Newcomb

Kelly Newcomb is president and CEO of Newcomb Integrated Marketing Solutions, a two-division company that develops digital and print marketing communications and provides consultative services for strategic planning, marketing plan development, organizational development, and leadership training. Utilizing components of his two other enterprises, the Can Do! Success-Building Programs and the Leaders Resource Network, he also leads Newcomb’s Integrated Consulting Division and advises clients in the areas of strategic planning, business/organizational development, leadership training, team-building, and marketing and brand-building. With 20 years experience, Newcomb has developed a particular expertise in developing programs that add value to businesses – both among groups of stakeholders, leaders, and staff members within a company and the clients and prospective customers that comprise its marketplace. He holds a master’s degree in strategic communications and leadership from Seton Hall University, a bachelor’s degree in business operations from Indiana University, and an associate’s degree in manufacturing engineering technology from Purdue University.

Course Description: Understanding the costs of easy credit and ways to avoid it can improve margins, enhance customer relationships and align the sales and credit functions within a company. An effective credit policy depends on tools, policies and training that help a company define the standard and expectations with customers and clients and protect them in the event of slow pay. This session will discuss The Need for the Get P.A.I.D. System to help companies access and manage their credit and accounts receivables.

Speaker(s):

Robert Bernstein

Robert Bernstein is managing partner of Bernstein Law Firm, representing businesses of all types and sizes in many facets of their operation, including reorganization proceedings. He has extensive experience in credit recovery matters, including collection, secured transaction and mortgage foreclosure. Bernstein serves as counsel to commercial landlords, equipment lessors, bankruptcy trustees and creditors throughout Pennsylvania and the Middle Atlantic States and is the author of the book Get P.A.I.D. A Guide to Getting Paid Faster (and What to Do if You Don’t!).

Course Description: The Internet has changed the way the world does business. How you use the Internet to help your business stay in business and grow is one of the most important things you can learn today. In this session participants will learn how the Internet is creating fantastic opportunities for service businesses, how they can capitalize on the Internet as a primary method to gain and keep customers, how to create a plan to improve their Internet marketing, and how to get their employees and customers engaged in the use of the Internet as an effective service tool.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (.5 credit)

Speaker(s):

Greg DeVitto

Gregg DeVitto is co-owner and co-founder of 3 Brothers Marketing Inc., which operates industry-specific Web sites and focuses on lead generation. Additionally, he works for a major transportation company in regional sales where his successes have generated a 38 percent increase in revenues over the past two years, growing his territory to nearly $14 million. Prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits, DeVitto negotiated broadcast and media trade agreements, sold advertising and ticket packages and won several awards for community service initiatives.

Course Description: Arguably, nothing happens until you make the sale. Growing and developing sales requires a disciplined approach. This session will discuss how to develop an ongoing education program to better serve customers and present participants with a disciplined “hands-on” sales process that will positively impact their bottom line, show how to sell more than price, and obtain more referrals, as well as proven marketing techniques that will help close the sale and build business in the future.

Speaker(s):

Frank Taciak

Frank Taciak is the owner of C.A. Taciak & Sons. A graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Taciak worked with his father in the backhoe business before taking a job as a machinist in New York for eight years. Returning to Baltimore, he took over the family business, which has steadily grown into a full-service backhoe company, specializing in sewer and septic work.

Course Description: In an extremely competitive market, the only thing that differentiates companies is the value they deliver and the “extra” value they continue to create. In this impactful and practical session, participants will learn how to improve the value of their customer service and differentiate themselves from their competition, create value-added services and get paid for them, market their value-added services, and get their team and employees behind the effort.

Speaker(s):

Ray Luden

Ray Luden, northeastern states representative for PolyJohn Enterprises Corp., grew up in East Haven, Conn., and attended public schools, but likes to refer to his education as having taken place at “Farnham Academy.” (Farnham Sanitation was one of his father’s service companies). Luden followed in his father’s entrepreneurial footsteps, working his way up in the restaurant business until he owned his own diner, later becoming partners with his father at Farnham Sanitation. As head of sales and marketing for Farnham, Luden doubled its profits in less than three years. Since joining Polyjohn in 1988, he has helped his customers grow their own businesses.

Course Description: How well do you know your business costs? While you may be an expert in service and customer care, do you know what each service call costs you? How quickly can you figure your costs for a 50-unit special event? Is it less expensive to pay overtime or hire a new person? What does a new customer cost you? If a new customer is off your usual route by 10 miles, how much does that distance cost you?

Credits Offered For: Georgia (.5 credit)

Speaker(s):

Don Schultz

Don Schultz, controller for Newcomb Marketing Solutions, Michigan City, Ind., has 25 years of corporate accounting experience in the transportation, retail and manufacturing industries. His areas of expertise include maintaining the general ledger, account reconciliation, budgeting and financial statement preparation. Schultz is a graduate of Tri-State University in Angola, Ind., with a bachelor of science degree in business administration and accounting major.

Topic: NASSCO

Course Description: New technologies are revolutionizing the ability to inspect and rehabilitate underground infrastructure. In particular, advances in robotics enable pipe inspections that employ multiple sensor technologies simultaneously. Multi-sensor inspection (MSI) data is distinct from other forms of inspection data in that it can be fused into a more complete representation of pipe condition than is possible using individual sensors. MSI data also enables new types of analysis that will improve the ability to diagnose problems and predict pending failures before they are manifested on the surface. This session provides a forward-looking review of robotics and multi-sensor inspection technologies that will play a part in this ongoing revolution.

Credits Offered For: Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Scott Thayer

Scott Thayer is RedZone’s chief technology officer and has 15 years of robotics, software development, and technical program management experience. Dr. Thayer was previously a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University where he served as director of the subterranean robotics group and the software systems group within the Robotics Institute. He has developed more than a dozen operational field robots, including the world’s first autonomous mine mapping robots: Groundhog, Ferret, Helix, and Cave Crawler. Dr. Thayer has published over 50 technical papers and has eight patents issued or pending. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, a master of science degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee.

Course Description: This session discusses epoxy lining as the solution to rehabilitating failing potable water systems without disrupting walls or excavating pipe. With the ability to line 1/2-inch to 36-inch pipe, lining is often the only process available to restore potable water infrastructure.

Speaker(s):

Brian LeMaire

Brian LeMaire, founder of CuraFlo, Cleveland, Ohio, has been in the plumbing business since 1981, rehabilitating waterlines with epoxy since 1996. He is a licensed journeyman plumber in Canada as well as the state of Ohio.

Course Description: This session will look at the impact a strong, comprehensive, root control program can have on not only eliminating emergencies due to sewer root stoppages, but also how it can significantly impact an entire sewer operations department to the point where it becomes the foundation of a complete preventative maintenance program. Discussion will include traditional methods for dealing with roots in sewers, and why rodding and hydraulic cutting only worsen the problem.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

John Fletcher

John Fletcher is Atlantic regional manager for Duke’s Root Control Inc., responsible for working with sewer operations departments, engineers and planners to integrate root control and grease control into overall preventative maintenance programs. He has a bachelor’s degree in business from The State University of New York and has been working in the trenchless technologies industry for 10 years. The founder of CMOM Solutions Inc., he is a member of the Chesapeake WEA Collection Committee and is co-chair of the FOG subcommittee and a member of the Chesapeake WEA Golden Manhole Society.

Course Description: Proposed changes to OSHA confined space entry regulations may have a significant impact on the opening and descending of sanitary and storm sewer manholes. Jobs once thought as routine may require additional personnel, bypassing or plugging of lines and on-site rescue. This presentation will highlight these proposals and their potential impact on employers, employees and multiple contractor projects.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Indiana (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Kathy Romans

Kathy Romans is national sales manager for Trelleborg/NPC pipe and manhole repair products division. She has been part of the underground infrastructure rehabilitation industry for more than 10 years. Her background includes, inflow/infiltration elimination, flow monitoring and measurement, and chemical grouting. Prior to entering the municipal arena, Romans worked for 15 years in the remediation of hazardous waste and Superfund sites. She serves as NASSCO treasurer and is chairman of the health and safety committee.

Course Description: Chemical grouts have been used in our nation’s infrastructure for more than 40 years. Like any other repair material, history has proven that incorrect use of a particular material may provide a short-term solution but fail in the long-term. This session will focus on choosing the correct product to ensure that the repair is long term and in the best interest of the industry.

Credits Offered For: Indiana (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Ed Paradis

Ed Paradis is regional sales manager/director of municipal sales for De Neef Construction Chemicals Inc. He attended Boston College and has been involved in the construction and rehabilitation industry since 1989. Paradis is a member of the International Concrete Repair Association, NASSCO, NASTT and DFI (Deep Foundation Institute).

Course Description: Inspection of products has been part of our society for many years. Everything that is manufactured, produced and constructed is inspected for safety and quality. In many cases government regulations dictate inspection requirements to protect the safety and health of the public. This session will discuss how trained technology inspectors can ensure a better quality project through specification enforcement, resulting in higher contractor profits from less repair work after project completion.

Speaker(s):

Gerry Muenchmeyer

Gerry Muenchmeyer is a registered civil engineer with 45 years experience in private consulting, municipal public service, contracting and product manufacturing. For the past 25 years, he has specialized in trenchless technology development, design and construction. Muenchmeyer is technical director, board member and past-president of NASSCO, vice president of the Pipe Rehabilitation Council (PRc), past chairman of the International Pipe Bursting Association (IPBA) and author of numerous trenchless technical articles. He is currently principal of Muenchmeyer Associates LLC, providing consulting services to the trenchless industry.

Topic: NAWT

Course Description: This session will focus on how to look at your business niche, what resources are available, as well as discussion of different starting places based on current business and where to go in the future.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Indiana (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Tom Frank

Tom Frank has worked in the family full service onsite business his whole life and is responsible for the daily operations of the business. He has had an active role in building and operating the treatment facility owned and operated by Tim Frank Septic Tank Cleaning Co. Tom is currently the President of the National Association of Wastewater Transporters, board of director for the Ohio Onsite Wastewater Association and past president of the Ohio Waste Haulers Association.

Course Description: This discussion will look at different treatment processes, enabling the pumper to determine which ones to employ.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Therese Wheaton

Therese Wheaton is the sole proprietor of Crystal Environmental. In 1992, she began assisting and training clients on how to maintain and optimize their dewatering facilities. She works in both industrial and municipal areas of dewatering.
In the last decade, she has had a special focus on handling septic and grease trap wastes. These systems are being used in industrial pre-treatment facilities and municipal receiving and equalization systems with focus on solving regional problems and creating financial profit centers.

Course Description: This session will focus on working your business plan and decisions that can be made by the numbers.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (.5 credit), Michigan (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Tom Ferrero

Beginning as a septic tank pumper in a family owned business, Tom Ferrero now has over forty years experience in the septage industry and has held positions in the septage industry Associations on a National, State, and local level. He is currently the Executive Director of NAWT, the National Association of Wastewater Transporters. Tom’s commitment to the industry shows in his daily efforts to improve the knowledge and professional image of septage haulers.

Course Description: When you process your own waste you make a product that may no longer be septage. This session will concentrate on how this material is handled under Part 503 regulations.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Dave Gustafson

David Gustafson, P.E. is a civil engineer who has been a trainer in the nationally recognized Minnesota licensing program for more than 10 years. He has explained septic system operations and performance to more than 10,000 people from more than 30 states. He is a registered civil engineer and regularly designs, troubleshoots and gets his hands dirty in the onsite field. His approach to training is hands-on and practical with a spice of humor.

Course Description: This presentation will show haulers how they can set up facilities that turn grease-trap waste into saleable brown grease.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Claude Convisser

Claude Convisser is president of Plant Oil Powered Diesel Fuel Systems Inc., or POP diesel, based in Albuquerque, N.M. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a law degree from the University of Virginia. POP diesel has passed preliminary tests certifying that its auxiliary vegetable oil fuel system meets all the emissions limits set by the federal Clean Air Act and is proceeding towards full U.S. Environmental Protection Agency certification of its kit and vegetable oil fuel.

Greg Jarvies

Greg Jarvies is owner of American Waste Removal in Albuquerque, N.M. He has been in the pumping business since 1981 and has been cooking brown grease from trap waste since 1992. Jarvies serves as a consultant on processing brown grease from trap waste, and has designed and built several brown grease processing facilities.

Course Description: Every successful business began with a good business plan. This session will develop a template business plan for disposal facilities.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Ron Mueller

Ron is a native of Missouri, born and raised on a grain and livestock farm in the small community of Treloar. He attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, receiving a B.S. in Agriculture Mechanization and a M.S. in Economics and Finance. Ron has 25 years commercial lending experience. He has financed all types of business and understands what types of information bankers need to make a credit decision. He has owned four successful businesses and has worked with small business owners for the past 32 years. Ron started his career with the SBDC in October of 2000 and is the director of the St. Charles, Missouri office. He teaches an entrepreneurship course at Logan College and facilitates various business seminars in the Metro area. In addition he provides one-on-one business counseling for start-up and existing businesses

Topic: NEHA

Course Description: Departments of public health and/or local health departments are often the regulatory agency for decentralized and onsite wastewater systems, enforcing prescriptive codes that define acceptable sites, acceptable materials, specific design criteria, installation standards, etc. For several years individuals and various groups have advanced the idea of “performance-based” regulation as a better approach, but regulatory agencies have been slow to embrace these ideas. Perhaps those pushing for a different approach have been too diplomatic, focusing too little on how badly our historical model of regulating decentralized and onsite systems works in an environmental and economical context. This presentation takes the gloves off on a long-time regulator’s love-hate relationship with onsite prescriptive codes.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Tony Smithson

Anthony Smithson is director of environmental health, Lake County, Ill., and a former onsite wastewater program manager and company owner.

Course Description: Double-digit population growth and skyrocketing development have resulted in a dramatic increase in unsewered development in Minnesota’s popular lakes county. This session will discuss the countywide decentralized sanitary district with pilot subordinate districts that is being established in Crow Wing County to help ensure human health protection and water quality. The program’s objective is to develop an effective strategy for implementing a wastewater management district on a local level so that onsite/cluster wastewater systems within the district are properly operated and maintained, as well as planning for replacement needs. Critical to system management is a scheduled inspection by a licensed service provider every 3-5 years.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Craig Gilbertson

Craig Gilbertson is an environmental planner with Ayres Associates and onsite wastewater section chair for the National Environmental Health Association. He works with rural communities in the management of onsite systems, lakeshore treatment clusters, developments, and unsewered communities. Gilbertson previously was deputy director of the Cass County, Minn., environmental services office for 18 years.

Course Description: Point of sale inspections have been touted as an ideal way to gradually identify septic systems with operational problems and get them repaired prior to the sale or transfer of a property. The question is, do they work, how should they be done and who should be performing them? This presentation will focus on the methods used for complete inspections, what is legally defensible, and what works.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Kit Rosefield

Kit Rosefield is a qualified service provider, whose primary activities are the inspection and operation, maintenance and monitoring of both standard and non-standard OWTS. He is accredited as an OWTS inspector under the NAWT and NSF international programs. Rosefield also is a certified O&M service provider and instructor of the CIDWT and NAWT training program, proctor for the NSF inspector practical exam and a certified industrial wastewater treatment plant operator.

Course Description: Training and expertise are vital parts of a successful installation business, but how can you let people know what you know? The Certified Installer Credential will help you get the recognition you deserve. This session will provide discussion on the credential, the training program and how they work.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Christl Tate

Christl Tate has worked as the National Environmental Health Association’s credentialing coordinator, education manager and currently works in the research and development department as coordinator of onsite wastewater system projects, including the Certified Installer of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems national credential that is offered at this conference.

Topic: NOWRA

Course Description: This session will provide an overview of the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association, including state associations, member benefits and new opportunities, as well as provide an overview of the evolution of wastewater treatment in the United States. This presentation will describe the basic science that influences wastewater treatment and discuss the variable characteristics that influence methods used to treat wastewater.

Credits Offered For: Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Mark Hooks

Mark Hooks is regional regulatory consultant for Infiltrator Systems Inc. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a bachelor of science degree in forestry and minor study in soil science. He was a soil scientist of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, onsite sewage program, as well as the assistant director of the Kentucky Division of Environmental Health and Community Safety. He was appointed by the Kentucky governor as the Cabinet’s representative of the State Agricultural Water Quality Authority.

Ted Loudon

Ted Loudon is recently retired after serving 33 years as a professor and extension engineer in the biosystems and agricultural engineering department at Michigan State University. He serves as a private consultant on various types of water management projects including wastewater treatment designs. Dr. Loudon is a past president of NOWRA and has served on several national groups, including the National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project Steering Committee.

Course Description: This session provides a baseline understanding of not only the soil parameters that control the efficacy of treatment, but also the importance of overall site issues that must be considered. It addresses the use of soil morphology, landscape description, interpretation of data, and non-soil data for onsite wastewater applications.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Ted Loudon

Mark Hooks

Course Description: This session describes the wastewater treatment processes that occur in septic tanks, design features that improve tank function and facilitate O & M, and the importance of tank capacity and structural integrity.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Ted Loudon

Mark Hooks

Course Description: This session will highlight the principles of onsite wastewater treatment using ATUs and media filters. It also will focus on the effluent quality parameters that may affect design and use. Various types of ATUs and media will be discussed, including sand, peat and recirculating filters.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Ted Loudon

Mark Hooks

Course Description: This session provides details on the design, component selection and configuration of systems to deliver effluent under pressure, as well as different types of pumps and their associated uses.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Ted Loudon

Mark Hooks

Course Description: This session details basic information for ensuring long-term system reliability via regularly scheduled, thorough and intensive maintenance.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Massachusetts (1 credit), Michigan (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Ted Loudon

Mark Hooks

Topic: PSAI

Course Description: Participants in this 2-hour panel discussion of portable sanitation operators will outline the ingredients necessary to understand the breakdown costs associated with the industry. The goal is to give the portable sanitation operator easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures and the “reason” behind each procedure that constitute why most operations under-evaluate the true cost until it is too late and the bid has been submitted. The segment will allow for questions and answers.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (.5 credit)

Speaker(s):

Mike Pauling

Mike Pauling, CEO of Biffs Inc., Shakopee, Minn., is former vice president of sales and marketing for Satellite Industries, and served 17 years on PSAI’s board of directors. He has sat on numerous association committees and was one of only two, two-term presidents. Currently he is a representative on the industry standards/legislative and marketing committee. In 1986, Pauling purchased a portable restroom company with 200 units and four trucks, later acquiring both the BFI and WMI portable sanitation divisions in Minnesota and several smaller operations. He also owns Biffs Boxes, a roll-off division.

Lee Sola

Lee Sola, panel chairman, is co-owner of S & B Porta-Bowl Restrooms Inc. and has been in the portable sanitation business since 1972. He is a past president of the Portable Sanitation Association International and currently serves as the North American representative to PSAI International Working Group as well as chairman of the industry standards/legislative and marketing committee.

Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy, president of Mr John of Pittsburgh, started in the portable sanitation industry as a carpenter’s helper with Mr. John Inc. in 1972. He advanced to vice president and in 1985 purchased the branch operation in Pittsburgh. At that time the operation had 12 employees and 1,200 units. Today it has nearly 60 employees and 4,000 units. McCarthy served on the PSAI board of directors and was one of the only two, two-term presidents.

Mike Holm

Mike Holm, director of government and emergency services with United Site Services Inc., has been involved in the portable sanitation industry since 1979, managing the family portable sanitation business in Minneapolis, Minn. He has served in a variety of roles including ownership of a service company, design engineer for a portable restroom manufacturer and managing director of the U.S. division of an international portable sanitation service company.

Millicent Carroll

PSAI Director, Industry Regulatory Standards & Marketing.

Course Description: Understanding Your Cost to Insure Profitability Continued.

Speaker(s):

Millicent Carroll

PSAI Director, Industry Regulatory Standards & Marketing.

Lee Sola

Mike Pauling

Mike Holm

Michael McCarthy

Topic: SSCSC

Course Description: Collection systems are the wastewater utilities’ largest investment. Trenchless technologies have become a major alternative to traditional digging for replacement of these lines. This session will discuss issues that make rehabilitation necessary such as infiltration, exfiltration, roots, corrosion, and structural defects. It also will look at the history of trenchless rehabilitation and discuss the pros and cons of the four basic styles of technology used for mainline replacement and trenchless rehabilitation of pipelines, including traditional dig and replace; continuous, sectional and spiral-wound slipliners; cured-in-place pipeliners, and folded and re-folded pipeliners.

Credits Offered For: Indiana (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Dave Badgley

David Badgley is a member of the Southern Sections Collection System Committee, the APWA Greenbook task force on pipeline rehabilitation, the ASTM F17 committee on plastic piping systems, and the WEF committee rewriting the Manual of Practice No. 6 on existing sewer evaluation and rehabilitation. He also provides business development services for Sancon Engineering pipeline rehabilitation division and RedZone Robotics pipeline condition assessment services. Badgley has 35 years experience in business development for the construction of pipeline inspection, maintenance, locating equipment, pipe and construction services. He has specialized in mainline trenchless technologies, including grouting, continuous and segmented sliplining, CIPP (cured-in-place), spiral wound, folded and re-formed liners, maintenance hole and sewer lateral rehabilitation for sewer and storm drain pipeline, 4 inches to 120 inches in diameter.

Course Description: This session will provide a guide to becoming a first-rate CCTV pipeline inspection operator, motivating and challenging existing operators, as well as encouraging and inspiring new and upcoming operators. The session also will serve as a guide for supervisors, operations managers and company owners in their quest to achieve a quality CCTV pipeline inspection program. Discussion will include practical steps to elevate the level of quality, improve efficiency and increase productivity of the CCTV pipeline inspection operator

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Indiana (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Jim Aanderud

Jim Aanderud is secretary of the CWEA Southern Sections Collection System Committee and a certified NASSCO/PACP trainer with years of field experience as a CCTV pipeline inspection operator. He is regularly published in trade magazines relating to the pipeline inspection and cleaning industry. As president of Innerline Engineering, Aanderud has steered his company through many large inspection and cleaning projects, including the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, Orange County Sanitation District, The City of Los Angeles, the City of Anaheim, and the City of San Diego, among others.

Course Description: At its most basic level, GIS is a program for making maps, but beyond that, it is one of the most powerful tools that a manager, worker, or planner can have in their tool chest. This presentation will take the mystery out of GIS and show what makes it tick. Discussion will cover GIS from the basic components through some of the most used functionality, such as planning the most efficient route for pickups and deliveries, location notes, maintenance information, work order history and more.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Indiana (1 credit), Ohio (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Mark Hill

Mark Hill is a project manager with RBF Consulting. For the past 10 years he has managed the pipeline assessment group, evaluating collections systems and storm drain systems, providing hydraulic modeling, system analysis, legislation compliance assistance, and master planning. He serves on the CWEA Southern Section Collection Systems Committee and is active in the San Diego chapter. Hill teaches collections system math preparation for certification exams and has been a speaker at many conferences and symposiums on sewer system management and analysis.

Course Description: This presentation will focus on the cleaning of pipeline with a jet/vac combination truck. This “how to” course will cover some of the common misconceptions of how flow rate and PSI affect the cleaning process and what types of nozzles should be used for specific cleaning applications. The cleaning truck can only do so much; it is the operator of the equipment who cleans the pipe. This course is designed to advance the skill and knowledge of the operator by discussing proven cleaning techniques, tricks of the trade and ways to use the cleaning equipment to its full capability.

Credits Offered For: Indiana (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Duane Johnson

Duane Johnson is vice president of Affordable Pipeline Services. He has 16 years experience in the construction and pipeline industries both in the field and in office environments. Johnson has trained numerous CCTV and cleaning crews and is a current co-chairman of the California Water Environment Association (CWEA), Southern Section Collection Systems Committee. He holds Grade 3 collection system maintenance certification from CWEA, is a regular speaker on CCTV inspection and pipeline cleaning topics and is a certified NASSCO/PACP trainer. Johnson assists municipalities throughout Southern California in training collections crews.

Course Description: This session will cover safety issues directly related to the wastewater industry. An overview of regulations for confined space entries and personal protective equipment will be covered. Learn what records need to be kept and how to set up and document your training program. Confined space entry hazards and procedures will be discussed along with gas monitors and their proper usage. Understanding the new OSHA regulations on personal protective equipment is an intimidating task ignored by many. Learn what the new regulations are and how they affect your company.

Credits Offered For: Georgia (1 credit), Indiana (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Rick Lewis

Rick Lewis is an OSHA certified outreach program trainer and competent personnel trainer for shoring and trenching with 20 years experience in wastewater collections. He has a 2-year certificate program in occupational health and safety management from San Diego State and has trained with International Safety Instruments, completing gas monitor training. Lewis has given numerous presentations at conferences and state workshops, and serves as a consultant to cities and contractors throughout the United States.

Course Description: Sewer collection systems are a wastewater utilities’ largest investment. They have a replacement value greater than that of a wastewater treatment plant. Up to $90 billion per year are spent on pipeline and manhole replacement in the United States. After pipelines, manholes are the greatest source of maintenance issues in the sewer collection system. This session will discuss why manholes are often the forgotten link in the collections systems, the need for manhole inspections, the various inspection methods, and what to do with the data. The session will look at problems that occur in manholes, such as infiltration, exfiltration, roots, and structural defects; and discuss the available technologies for rehabilitation, including spray coatings, grouted forms, fiberglass reinforced cured-in-place lines and PVC mastic liners, as well as manhole construction.

Credits Offered For: Indiana (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Denis Pollak

Denis Pollak is former president of the California Water Environment Association and has served in numerous capacities on the CWEA board of directors for 12 years. He is a founding member of the CWEA Southern Section Collection Systems Committee and planned and organized the first SSCSC training workshop. Pollack also coordinated production of a math workbook for collection systems operators and a basic collection system workbook. He has spent many years teaching wastewater collections and pumps and motors at two colleges in the San Diego area.

Topic: WJTA

Course Description: This session will provide an overview of the applications and strengths of an air mover in industrial services and how to obtain the maximum performance from the machine in typical job situations.

Speaker(s):

Gary Toothe

Gary Toothe is a certified environmental, safety and health trainer and is the training manger for Thompson Industrial Services LLC. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Georgia, serves on the WJTA safety committee, the National Safety Council, The American Society for Training and Development and the National Environmental Safety and Health Training Association. Toothe also holds a premier certificate in safety and health from Georgia Tech and is an authorized OSHA outreach trainer for both construction and general industry.

Course Description: This session will provide an overview of the processes behind pre-job planning tip selection, job setup and successful waterblasting on customer sites.

Credits Offered For: Indiana (1 credit)

Speaker(s):

Gary Toothe

Course Description: This overview will focus on the economic aspects of waterjetting applications and production in industrial, commercial and municipal settings, as well as increasing customer awareness of waterjetting capabilities, improved cleaning times, more efficient cleaning, the expanded market and the outlook for the future.

Speaker(s):

Scott Coleman

Currently the Safety, Health, & Environmental Compliance Director, Scott has been with IVS Hydro since May of 2004. A graduate of West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1984 with Bachelors of Science degrees in History & Government and Political Science. Currently sits on the Safety Committee for the WJTA as well as the Contractors Association of West Virginia. Holds annual training certificates in HAZWOPER, & Lead Abatement as well as provides company in-house OSHA training. I have felt right at home in dealing with local, state, and federal government agencies for many years. I have also worked in the fields manufacturing and distribution as a facilities manager for an automotive parts manufacturer.